Abstract:Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. is one of the most prestigious and influential publishing houses in the United States—and it was founded and has been largely staffed by Jews. These Knopf, Inc. staff members were regularly faced with the question of what kind of books about Jews should be published by a nonsectarian house like theirs, with famously high artistic and commercial standards. Thus the extensive Knopf, Inc. editorial records constitute an extraordinary archive reflecting the shaping of the “horizon of the publishable,” in this case in terms of representations of Jews in America. Knopf, Inc. editors envisioned a specifically Jewish market for books, which they saw as one they could and should address. They understood that Jewish market not through data but through personal experience, and consequently published European Jewish literature in translation while remaining skeptical of works treating Jewish life in America. References to Alfred Knopf’s Jewishness also served as a defense for authors accused of anti-Semitism, including H. L. Mencken and Raymond Chandler. As a whole, the case of Knopf, Inc. begins to answer the question of how and why it matters that throughout the twentieth century, Jews became increasingly prominent in the field of American publishing.

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在 Knopf 出版犹太人

摘要：Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. 是美国最负盛名和最有影响力的出版社之一，它的创立者主要由犹太人组成。这些 Knopf, Inc. 的工作人员经常面临这样的问题：像他们这样的非宗派机构应该出版什么样的关于犹太人的书籍，并以极高的艺术和商业标准着称。因此，广泛的 Knopf, Inc. 编辑记录构成了一个非凡的档案，反映了“可出版地平线”的形成，在这种情况下，就犹太人在美国的表现而言。Knopf, Inc. 的编辑设想了一个专门的犹太图书市场，他们认为这是他们可以而且应该解决的问题。他们明白犹太市场不是通过数据而是通过个人经验，并因此出版了翻译的欧洲犹太文学，同时对处理美国犹太人生活的作品持怀疑态度。对阿尔弗雷德·克诺夫 (Alfred Knopf) 的犹太身份的提及也为被指控为反犹太主义的作者辩护，包括 HL Mencken 和 Raymond Chandler。总的来说，Knopf, Inc. 的案例开始回答以下问题：在整个 20 世纪，犹太人在美国出版领域变得越来越突出是如何以及为何如此重要。